Texas police officer charged with murder in Dallas shooting

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Source: Associated Press

Texas police officer charged with murder in Dallas shooting

By JAKE BLEIBERG
June 27, 2019

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas police officer has been indicted on a murder charge two weeks after shooting the unarmed driver of a truck that had been reported stolen as the vehicle swerved past his police SUV in a Dallas parking lot.

Farmers Branch Officer Michael Dunn, 43, turned himself in Wednesday night after a grand jury returned the unusually swift indictment in the killing of 35-year-old Juan Moreno, officials said Thursday.

On June 12, police in suburban Farmers Branch spotted a white pickup that had been reported stolen from the city of Irving. Dunn followed the vehicle over the Dallas city line to a shopping center and opened fire as Moreno was pulling out of the parking lot, police said. Surveillance video appears to show Dunn firing into the driver’s side of the truck as it makes a sweeping turn around his cruiser.

Carlos Quintanilla, who is acting as a spokesman for the Moreno family, commended the speedy indictment.

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1. The second Farmers Branch officer to be charged with murder in recent years

Dunn is the second Farmers Branch officer to be charged with murder in recent years.

Last year, a jury found Ken Johnson guilty of murder for the 2016 shooting of a 16-year-old who burglarized his SUV. Johnson was sentenced to 10 years in prison after trail evidence showed the off-duty officer chased Jose Cruz and another teenager with his sport utility vehicle, rammed their car and then repeatedly fired into it, killing Cruz.

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2. DFW is one metro area in the US that does not play when it comes to police community relationships

... that's good.